CHICAGO – The White House said Monday that the case of the Education Department (search) paying a conservative commentator to plug its policies was an isolated incident, not a practice widely used by the Bush administration. With the Education Department still defending its $240,000 contract with syndicated columnist and TV …
Read More »Directors Guild Nods Announced
LOS ANGELES – Martin Scorsese (search), shut out five times previously for the top prize from his filmmaking peers, has earned another shot at the Directors Guild of America Awards (search). Scorsese earned a nomination Thursday for the guild’s best-director honor for his sprawling epic “The Aviator” (search), a film …
Read More »Gonzales Memos Spur Debate
WASHINGTON – Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales’ (search) confirmation hearing this week may become more contentious because the White House has refused to provide copies of his memos on the questioning of terror suspects. “We go into the hearing with some knowledge of what has occurred because of press reports …
Read More »Army Capt.: Iraqi Police Dogs Need Food
LAS VEGAS – The commander of an Army Reserve detachment in Iraq is begging friends back home to send food for Iraqi police dogs. Captain Gabriella Cook says in e-mails that the 13 dogs at the Iraqi Police Academy (search) in Baghdad are living on table scraps and garbage. She …
Read More »Motorola's No. 2 to Resign, Seek New Job
CHICAGO – Motorola Inc. (MOT) on Wednesday said its No. 2 officer, who had been passed over for the chief executive post, will resign at the end of January to seek a top spot with another company. President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Zafirovski (search), 51, was credited with turning …
Read More »Graner Defense Rests in Abu Ghraib Trial
FORT HOOD, Texas – The defense for Spc. Charles Graner (search) Jr. rested its case Thursday without the accused ringleader of abuses at the Abu Ghraib (search) prison taking the stand. The jury of four Army officers and six senior enlisted men was to begin deliberating Friday. Graner’s lawyers had …
Read More »Suspect Arrested in Deadly Afghan Bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan – Security forces have arrested the suspected organizer of the deadly car-bombing of a U.S. security firm and believe he was acting on the orders of Al Qaeda, an Afghan official said Saturday. The man, a Tajik national called Mohammed Haidar (search), confessed his leading role in the …
Read More »Forensics Experts Work to ID Tsunami Victims
PHUKET, Thailand – Forensics experts were poring over fingerprints and dental records to identify victims from the Asian tsunami, hoping to get the easier matches out of the way before tackling the time-consuming process of DNA analysis (search). Hundreds of bodies being kept at makeshift mortuaries were examined by more …
Read More »Thursday, Jan. 20: Inauguration Day
Weekdays at 1 p.m. ET • Click here for FREE TICKETS to our studio audience and order a VHS copy of the show call FDCH eMedia at 1-888-44-FOXTV “DaySide” is off Thursday, but tune in to FOX News Channel’s special coverage of President George W. Bush’s 2nd term inauguration ceremony: …
Read More »U.S. Troops Retaliate After Attack, Kill 8
BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint south of Baghdad (search) after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb and a hospital official said Sunday at least eight people were killed in the second American attack in two days to have deadly results. In other violence …
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